• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회A
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• pp.979-984
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• 2007

This paper presents a new control mechanism for the proportional pressure control which is accomplished by electro-pneumatic regulator using two PZT actuators. The electro-pneumatic regulator of this study is 2-stage type and consists of two piezoelectric actuators, a controller and a main poppet valve. The piezoelectric actuators are multilayer bender type and are controlled by digital signal. Proportional pressure control technique is very important because that can derive improvement of product quality and driving ability in the pneumatic system. Solenoid actuator method for pressure control is widely used but this actuator has a high power consumption characteristics. So new actuator is required for the energy saving. In this study, PZT actuator for the pressure control was fabricated and experimented instead of the conventional type solenoid actuator. Experiments for the new control mechanism of the elector-pneumatic regulator were operated under the input condition of 0.4[MPa] and it was confirmed that this mechanism has a good control characteristics to the response sensitivity and hysteresis.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제40권10호
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• pp.681-687
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• 2016

마이크로 인젝션을 바이오분야에 적용하기 위해 고압생성을 통해 침투하는 방법을 채택하였다. 그러나 고압의 액체를 인젝션 할 경우 그 양을 미세하게 하기 어렵다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해는 고속으로 동작하는 개폐밸브에 의한 방법이 있다. 본 연구에서는 수백 Hz로 동작가능한 압전 액추에이터로 구성된 개폐밸브를 적용하여 실험하였다. 압전밸브를 구동하는 파형을 다양하게 조절하고 노즐의 구조에 의한 영향을 알아보기 위해 5가지 서로 다른 치수의 노즐을 제작하였다. 다양한 노즐과 구동파형 변수를 조절하면서 무엇이 인젝션 볼륨과 인젝션 힘에 큰 영향을 미치는지 확인하였다. 이 실험을 통해, 인젝션 볼륨을 줄이고 인젝션 힘을 증가시키는 방법을 알아냈고 목표치가 있다면 그에 맞는 다양한 값을 결정할 수 있게 되었다.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.69-77
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• 2011

A peristaltic micropump with lightweight piezo-composite actuator (LIPCA) membrane valves is presented. The micropump contained three cylinder chambers that were connected by microchannels and two active membrane valves. A circular miniature LIPCA was developed and manufactured to be used as actuating diaphragms. The LIPCA diaphragm acted as an active membrane valve that alternate between open and closed positions at the inlet and outlet in order to produce high pumping pressure. In this LIPCA, a lead zirconium titanate ceramic with a thickness of 0.1 mm was used as an active layer. The results confirmed that the actuator produced a large out-of-plane deflection. During the design process, a coupled field analysis was conducted in order to predict the actuating behavior of the LIPCA diaphragm; the behavior of the actuator was investigated from both a theoretical and experimental perspective. The active membrane valve concept was introduced as a means for increasing pumping pressure, and microelectromechanical system techniques were used to fabricate the peristaltic micropump. The pumping performance was analyzed experimentally in terms of the flow rate, pumping pressure and power consumption.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제20권12호
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• pp.2209-2217
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• 2006

Dynamic flow characteristics of a counter-flow vortex tube is investigated using hot-wire and piezoelectric transducer (PZT) measurements. The experimental study is conducted over a range of cold air outlet ratios (Y=0.3, 0.5, 0.7, and 1.0) and inlet pressure 0.15 MPa. Temperatures are measured at the cold air outlet and along the vortex tube wall. Hot-wire is located at cold outlet and PZT is installed at inner vortex tube by mounting at throttle valve. The cold outlet temperature results show that the swirl flow of vortex tube is not axisymmetric. The hot-wire and PZT results show that there exist two distinct kinds of frequency, low frequency periodic fluctuations and high frequency periodic fluctuations. It is found that the low frequency fluctuation is consistent with the Helmholtz frequency and the high frequency fluctuation is strongly related with precession oscillation.

• 한국마린엔지니어링학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국마린엔지니어링학회 2006년도 전기학술대회논문집
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• pp.33-34
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• 2006

In this study, a prototype piezo-driven Injector. as a new method driven by piezoelectric energy, has been designed and fabricated based on the concept of inverse piezo-electric effect to overcome the major drawbacks of conventional solenoid-driven injector with a fixed and slow control of injection rate. The effects of an electric control between the solenoid valve and piezo-ceramic stack for injector needle's driving on the dynamic characteristics were usually investigated. We found that this piezo-electric actuator has the main advantage to drastically reducing the time of injector nozzle opening, as well to exert higher force output levels.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.195-202
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• 2004

This paper presents the fabrication and evaluation of mechanical behavior for a peristaltic micropump by flow simulation. The valve-less micropump using the diffuser/nozzle is consists of the lower plate, the middle plate, the upper plate and the tube that connects inlet and outlet of the pump. The lower plate includes the channel and the chamber, and the plain middle plate are made of glass and actuated by the piezoelectric translator. Channels and a chamber on the lower plate are fabricated on high processability silicon wafer by the DRIE(Deep Reactive Ion Etching) process. The upper plate does the roll of a pump cover and has inlet/outlet/electric holes. Three plates are laminated by the aligner and bonded by the anodic bonding process. Flow simulation is performed using error-reduced finite volume method (FVM). As results of the flow simulation and experiments, the single chamber pump has severe flow problems, such as a backflow and large fluctuation of a flow rate. It is proved that the double-chamber micropump proposed in this paper can reduce the drawback of the single-chamber one.

• 항공우주시스템공학회지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.49-56
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• 2018

본 논문에서는 소형 압전유압펌프 브레이크 시스템의 성능해석 및 실험을 수행하였다. 먼저 브레이크 시스템의 구성을 위해 브레이크 부하 구성품의 3-D 모델링을 수행하였고, 상용 프로그램인 AMESim을 이용한 모델링을 진행하였다. 브레이크 시스템 모델링에는 플로팅 타입의 캘리퍼를 부하로 활용하였다. AMESim 시뮬레이션을 통해, 부하 압력과 체크밸브 변위 및 무부하 상태에서의 유량을 계산하였으며 브레이크 부하의 추가에 따른 성능해석 및 동특성 변화를 확인하였다. 브레이크 시스템의 성능 실험을 위해 부하를 고정시키는 치구를 제작하였고, 무부하 상태에서의 유량 및 부하 압력 형성 실험을 수행하고 시뮬레이션 결과와 비교하였다. 실험 결과, 최대 부하압력은 130Hz에서 약 73bar, 최대 유량 발생은 145Hz에서 약 203cc/min로, 중소형 무인기 브레이크 시스템에 적용가능성을 확인하였다. 또한 시뮬레이션 결과와 실험결과의 오차는 부하 압력과 토출 유량에서 각각 6%, 5% 정도이며, 모델링이 브레이크 성능해석에 효과적으로 활용될 것으로 판단된다.

• International Journal of Automotive Technology
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.323-332
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• 2005

A cylindrical constant volume combustion chamber was used to investigate the flow characteristics at the spark electrode gap and the combustion characteristics of a homogeneous charged methane-air mixture under various overall charge pressures, excess air ratios and ignition times. The flow characteristics, including the mean velocity and turbulence intensity, were analyzed with a hot wire anemometer. Combustion pressure development measured by piezoelectric pressure transducer, a flame propagation image acquired by ICCD camera and exhaust emissions measured by 2-valve gas chromatography were used to investigate effects of initial pressures, excess air ratios and ignition times on the combustion characteristics. It was found that the mean velocity and turbulence intensity had the maximum value around 200-300 ms and then decreased gradually to a near-zero value after 3000 ms and that the combustion duration was shorten and the flame speed and laminar burning velocity had the highest value under the condition of an excess air ratio of 1.1, an overall charge pressure of 0.15 MPa and an ignition time of 300 ms in the present study. The $CO_2$ concentration was proportional to the ignition time and overall charge pressure, the $CO_2$ concentration was proportional to the excess air ratio, and the UHC concentration was inversely proportional to the ignition time and overall charge pressure.